Agriculture committee  There is nothing wrong with organic agriculture. We need to use manure, and in some cases we may have to start using sewage by-products in order to help grow the food we need, but the reality is those products are usually in the wrong place. They're not really near the major crop

Agriculture committee  Thank you for your question. In French, we call them “4B”.

Agriculture committee  The basic concept is that there are four things you have to get right if you're going to use fertilizer well. First, you have to pick the right source of fertilizer, and that may be manure if it's available, or you have to make a decision whether you're going to use ammonia, or a

Agriculture committee  In provinces like Prince Edward Island, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan, we've set up working groups with provincial environment and agriculture departments and farm groups to work on how we change the practices to implement the 4Rs in those areas. While the federal governmen

Agriculture committee  The demonstration farms are where we provide a very small incentive, about $1,000, a very small amount of money for the size of some of the farms we're dealing with, for them to take a field or part of a field and implement 4R practices to see how it works at the farm scale. It's

Agriculture committee  Right, and that's where we're asking growers to work with a professional, a certified crop adviser—they're generally the kind of people who are making fertilizer and other recommendations to growers—to develop 4R plans that are specific to the farm, and then verify that the farme

Agriculture committee  Yes, you can maintain soil health and, in fact, improve the economics for the grower at the same time.

Agriculture committee  The reality is that 100 years ago we didn't use fertilizer and we were running out of food. We also mined the soils in western Canada in the 1930s. We had terrible soil loss, partly due to drought but also to the fact that the soils were completely depleted. We grew crops year af

Agriculture committee  Sure. If you look at Mr. Wiebe and the prosperity that I think his family farm has—and farms have across Canada—you'll see that a big part of that prosperity comes from fertilizer use. I think we tend to think a lot about these problems in terms of food supply and scarcity, but

Agriculture committee  I'm not familiar with who would be leading in terms of soil mapping, but provincial agriculture departments would be engaged, and a lot of the agronomic service companies would be doing mapping of soils.

Agriculture committee  Our emphasis has been on the practices that farmers are using to apply fertilizer to improve those. That has been our focus.

Agriculture committee  The reality is that in 2050 we're going to have 9.6 billion people on the planet, according to the estimates. There is very limited arable land available. We can't make more farmland than what we have. Countries like Canada are going to have to play a critical role in producing

Agriculture committee  We do believe that more can be done though, which is why we strongly encourage the members of the committee to consider our recommendations, which would be a formal recognition by the federal government to incentivize farmers and support research in the area of 4R nutrient stewar

Agriculture committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. Thank you for inviting Fertilizer Canada to speak with you today regarding your study on climate change and water and soil conservation issues. I'm pleased to provide the committee with information about our association's m

International Trade committee  I think Canada, the United States, and Mexico have been living in a era where there is a degree of labour mobility at the more executive, professional, and skilled trades levels, which I think has been good. I think we'd like to protect that. What we have now has not been negat